If you were a regular in our old IRC-based chat, you may have noticed it, um, hasn't been working lately. Because of ongoing issues with the IRC chat (and the fact that it cost us money!), we've now switched over to a shiny new browser-based chat! It has some neat new features, and because it's PHP-based, Delphy will be making some modifications in the coming weeks that will make it even better!

If you weren't a regular in the old chat, you are still more than welcome to join us in the new chat! We'd love to see some new faces! Please just make sure to read the chat rules first (on the link above).

Much easier to get into than the old chat.. except the people were complaining that their text color options were nixed by Delphy. lol. (I wonder what they were doing before I had a chance to peek in. ;0) )

As a note, there are plenty of free Java-based IRC chat clients out there (and plenty of servers that will let you have a free chat room).

I'm not sure but there may be some flash-based ones as well, but I've been part of the push away from Flash, as even Adobe is wanting to phase it out now in favor of JavaScript/HTML5. Unfortunately, JavaScript cannot access the IRC protocol at this time, so you are stuck with Java.